Okay, now that you have way more opinions than you needed I will give you one more. I love Hobbs 80/20 fusible batt in my tablerunners. The fusible keeps them really flat for machine quilting. It is especially nice if your doing the french braid one where you start with a square in the middle and sew and flip the side pieces. I fuse the backing to the batt and the starting square first and sew and fuse the pieces as I go. It keeps everything in place, it's all quilted and all I have to do is trim and bind it.